Razor-strop.



PATENTED MAR. 21, 1905.

G. E. MAIBR.

' RAZOR STROP. nruonmn rum) mm: 20,- 1904.

Inventor,

Witnesses Patented March 21, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE EQMAIER, OF TROY, OHIO.

RAZ OR-STROP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 785,264, dated March 21, 1905. Application filed June 20, 1904. Serial No. 213,371

1'0 aM whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. MAIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at'Troy, in the county of Miami and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Razor-strop, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in razor-strops, and has for its object to improve the construction and increase the efficiency Without material increase in expense of manufacture or size of the device.

With these and other objects in view,which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as .various changes in. the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its shown.

advantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all the changes and modifications which fairly fall within the scope of the invention and the c aims made therefor.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view from one side. Fig. 2 is a perspective view from the opposite side of the improved strop. Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

The improved device comprises a baseblock or foundation member 10, of any suitable material, but preferably of wood, and with a handle 1 1 extending from one end. In one side of the base-block a longitudinal cavity 12 is formed, and the remaining sides 13 14 1.5 are constructedas sharpening mediums and formed convex longitudinally, as

The shar ening medium will generally be of the usua texture, such as are used upon razor-strops, one, as at 15, a fine abrasive hard surface and the remaining surfaces 13 14 of leather of varying fineness to 1mpart the requisite keenness of edge.

Mounted for rotation, as by bearings 16 17, in the cavity 12, is a sharpening medium in the form of a roller 18, convex longitudinally, the sharpening-surface being of an abrasive substance relatively coarser than the surface 15 or corresponding to the hone side of an ordinary strop.

The concavities of the various sharpening mediums will preferably conform substantially to the convex sides or edges of the razor, so that as the latter is drawn back and forth across the same the concavity of the razor will conform to the convexity of the sharpening medium, and thus produce a much finer and keener edge, and when drawn over the convex roller the latter will roll beneath the razor and produce a uniform ac tion from end to'end.

The razor will preferably be drawn over the sharpening-surfaces from the heel to point, and when this occurs the line of attrition produced by the action of the roller will be more nearly at right angles to the cut ting edge than when drawn over a flat stationary surface, as in an ordinary hone or flat razor-strop surface and produce a much keener edge than with the ordinary shape of strop or hone.

The strops can be of any desired. size or length and of any suitable material and finished in any desired ornamental form.

I claim 1.. In a razor-strop, a base-block having a longitudinal cavity in one side, and a sharpenin medium formed of a roller having longitudinally-convex sides and mounted for rotation in said cavity.

2. A razor-strop comprising a stock having three of its sides longitudinally bowed and provided with sharpening-surfaces, and its fourth side provided with a longitudinal cavity, and a fusiform sharpening element mounted for rotation within the cavity.

3. In a razor-strop, a base-block with a In testimony that I claim the foregoing as plurality of its sides as sharpening mediums my own I have hereto afiixed my signature and longitudinally convex and with a longiin the presence of two Witnesses.

tudinal cavity in one of its sides, and a sharp- GEORGE E. MAIER. 5 ening medium formed of a roller having lon- Witnesses:

gitudinally-convex sides and mounted for ro- GEO. B. GLAWsoN,

tation in said cavity. ORAN S. YoUNT. 

